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Does this make sense?

In Feb. 2016 it was reported to the Broward Country sheriff's office that the Florida shooter (I will not use his name) that he had posted on Instagram a picture of himself holding his gun and wrote that he was going to shoot his school.

In the fall of 2016 school authorities found bullets in his backpack after a fight and he was no longer allowed to carry a backpack. (I suppose bullets don't fit in men's pants pockets?)

Also in the fall of 2016 he was asked not to come back to the school campus because he had threatened several students.

Jan. 2017 shooter was involved in an assault in the school and was suspended for one day (OMG such harsh punishment) and this prompted the school to request a threat assessment. There is no evidence the assessment was actually conducted at this time. (Well, these things fall through the cracks, don't you know.)

Feb. 8, 2017 Shooter was finally expelled from school due to disciplinarian reasons and records show he bought the gun he used in three shooting 3 days later. One student said she believed he was expelled for bringing knives to school.

Interestingly, last Wednesday the superintendent of the Broward County school stated they had no prior warnings that shooter was a threat. He further stated that there may have been signs he was a threat but they had not received any complaints or calls about him.(HOW ABOUT ALL THE CRAP HE PULLED IN YOUR SCHOOLS, COULD THOSE BE SIGNS YOU IDIOT?)

Sept. 24, 2017 YouTube user contacted the FBI tip line and reported a (shooter's name spelled correctly) had commented on one of his posts that shooter replied that he was going to be a professional school shooter. He states the FBI came to his office the following day to ask what he knew about shooter. He did not hear from them again until several hours after the shooting. (Better late than never, huh.)

The BI acknowledges receiving the tip but stated they could not follow up because they could not identify a date and/or time or the true identity of the (shooter) person who had made the comment. (Jeez, had they bothered to check they'd have found the comment came from the person whose name was exactly as it as reported to them.)

Jan. 5, 2018 FBI received a tip providing shooters name again spelled correctly), info about the guns he owned, his desire to kill people, his disturbing social media posts but they did not investigate.

Feb. 14, 2018 A school staff person noticed shooter walking toward school with purpose and notified the police. Despite having 2 officers assigned to this school they did not intervene. We now know that one of these assigned officers hid outside the school while listening to the shooting, surely knowing innocent people were being slaughtered. He has reassigned.

The high school where this shooting occurred failed these kids. The local law enforcement authorities failed these kids. The fbi failed these kids. Twice. The psychological "expert" failed these kids.

But the left is focusing on the NRA and trying to lay the blame on them. And some wonder why we can't seem to get reasonable, common sense laws passed that would at least help prevent these incidents. The answer is clear, one side has no reason or common sense. Of course we understand the purpose in attacking the NRA. They are a lobbying group who donate to politicians, just like planned parenthood does and the left wants to disrupt legal activities they don't like or agree with.
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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
When you do a postmortem of all of these incidents, there is usually a chain of failures - but that's how it always is, from 9/11, to Columbine, to any serious industrial accident. And few people would not want to improve those intermediate measures that help stop incidents before they happen, at all levels of the problem.

But we also have these types of shootings on a weekly basis, in a variety of contexts - and we are the [i]only[/i] developed country that does. After a while, it becomes silly to pretend that ease of access to high-efficiency weaponry and general American gun culture are not factors in all of this.
katielass · F
@QuixoticSoul You failed to offer a legitimate or coherent excuse for the left trying to blame the NRA instead of the government who failed at every level. I don't hear anyone calling for accountability in the sheriff office or the FBI, except from the right. But that's no surprise, they are the ones with common sense. The left merely reacts like lemmings to what their agenda driven masters bleat out for them to regurgitate. Pathetic.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@katielass What exactly makes you think that (((the left))) isn't blaming inaction of FBI, etc, in this tragedy? Every major outlet on both sides of the aisle is running articles about mistakes of law enforcement.